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title: Bimeby, yer come a big black dog snuffin' roun', en de nigger up wid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bimeby, yer come a big black dog snuffin' roun', en de nigger up wid a chunk en lammed 'im side er de head. Who acts: Bimeby, big dog snuffin, chunk en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 55

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Bimeby, yer come a big black dog snuffin' roun', en de nigger up wid a chunk en lammed 'im side er de head.

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**Who acts:** Bimeby, big dog snuffin, chunk en · **What happens:** come, wi, lam · **To what, where:** im side

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, big dog snuffin, chunk en), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:34:55
# text = Bimeby, yer come a big black dog snuffin' roun', en de nigger up wid a chunk en lammed 'im side er de head.
1	Bimeby	Bimeby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snuffin	snuffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	',	',	PART	POS	_	11	dep	_	_
13	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	flat:foreign	_	_
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound	_	_
17	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	chunk	chunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lammed	lam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
26	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Bimeby |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wi** | past | a big dog snuffin  en nigger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lam** | past | a chunk en | im side  de head |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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